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Sydney, Nsw, Au

North Sydney, New South Wales, Au

I'm privileged and proud to lead a team of ~450 talented professionals who design, build and install critical communications infrastructure in wireless telecommunications across Australia. Our wireless telecom business line is a ~$230m growing business within Ventia, an ASX-listed diversified $5b critical infrastructure organisation serving the Telecommunication, Infrastructure, Defense & Social Infrastructure and Transport sectors.

Us

• Leveraging strategic frameworks to engage and support scale-ups and payment providers on growth, expansion and strategic transformation topics• Driving client development through targeted outreach and knowledge distribution

Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Drove development of joint commercial and technical 5-year payments strategy for Board review• Oversaw strategic reviews on select industry topics of the payment ecosystem• Led the capital investment prioritisation programs for the Group Payments team

Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Supported Transaction Banking EGM as Chief of Staff while concurrently leading Group payments strategy• Oversaw Board, ELT and LT inputs by synthesising input from business leaders • Contributed to risk submissions, investment prioritisation, strategy development and special projects

Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Identified new industry verticals for payments distruption and co-created innovative payment solutions• Represented the Business Bank in the program development for regulatory compliance to Consumer Data Right (Open Banking) and Privacy (GDPR) rollout

Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Drove innovation in the payments technology landscape for Australia's largest bank• Delivered large-scale technology infrastructure projects to upgrade and future-proof international payments (FX) systems

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Drove the integration of global consumer products into the Australian market• APAC product marketing lead for select consumer segments to deliver insights for growth, product lifecycle and marketing development• APAC lead for strategic acquisition market entry into Australia and APAC markets• Led development of a wearable NFC payments product piloted at an Australian music festival

IFC is a private sector-focused investment bank within The World Bank Group. The aim of this role was to support financial institutions and payment providers to increase customer acquisition and business profitability with digital banking and payments solutions• Conducted strategic and operational reviews in banks resulting in detailed marketing, product design, pricing and Go-to-Market recommendations to drive revenue growth and operational efficiency• Established a world-first interchange framework to support interoperable solution between e-wallets, retail banks and acquiring networks to impact more than 15 million consumers

Kingston, Jm

• Growth focused role with 38% year on year revenue growth as regional P&L owner for digital financial services and international remittances (FX) • Increased customer adoption by 30% and transaction volumes by 25% in six months achieved through product marketing, marketing development, product innovation and strategic Go-to-Market • Built a merchant acquiring network for alternative payments, oversaw product development and user experience for e-wallet transactions and drove the Go-to-Market approach • Managed a regional cross-functional staff in three countries and influenced in-market teams to deliver new products on time and on budget. Oversight of AML policies and regulatory relationships

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Lu

• Oversight of regional P&L for a mobile broadband business across 7 African markets. Supported business case development for 3G rollouts in three markets. Achieved 52% year on year revenue growth• Initiated and led the integration of critical systems including a Deep Packet Inspection / Policy Control Routing Function system• Facilitated fibre-optic capacity procurement across three markets to reduce bandwidth costs by 20%• Coordinate devices procurement across six markets to gain purchase power with devices suppliers

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Lu

• Led the alternative energy strategy and gained Board approval to introduce solar powering to 10 towers to reduce operating costs of selected sites by up to 70%• Designed a unique, mobile-facilitated value-added solution to support a government-led initiative to change the national language of Rwanda from French to English• Promoted to Regional Head of Mobile Broadband after leading commercial efforts to introduce 3G

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Lu

• Upskilling sales executives • CRM system creation and deployment• Bespoke entreprise solution development • Sales and marketing collateral development

• Mapped a programme vision into an executable strategy in change programmes affecting 5000 staff• Engaged and gained buy-in from HR, Training & Development and Technical / Engineering departments of TNK-BP (a UK/Russian joint venture) to prioritise and gain support for overhaul of technical training programs

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

This role partnered with HR professionals to design employee engagement programs including a targeted engagement strategy aimed to retain USD $7 billion in at-risk assets from customers who left their employer-sponsored superannuation plans

Mba, International Mba

B.A., Economics

B.A., French Language & Literature